Nicholas Brüss is a UCLA Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, a Stanford University trained Compassion Cultivating Training teacher, and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. He has been cross-trained in multiple arenas with compassion at their core such as mindfulness, attachment-based psychotherapy, somatic-based trauma resiliency, nonviolent communication and end of life presence. He also teaches the heavily researched Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator by UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Nicholas has practiced Vipassana meditation intensively in the U.S., Burma and Thailand, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practioner’s and Heavenly Messenger Programs. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice and Co-Director of La Maida Institute in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Nicholas has a keen interest in leading transformative practices toward a sustainable awakening way of being.